Corrections and clarifications

In a item giving Hari Kunzru's views on the global financial crisis we misquoted him as saying; "A great financial economist and historian called Michael Hudson talks about how the US economy is basically fictitious, based on pretend earnings and pretend values." Although Michael Hudson has talked about the fictitious economy, this is not what Hari Kunzru said. He said that Loren Goldner had elaborated on Marx's concept of fictitious capital. He went on to say that Michael Hudson had described the use of debt as an instrument of global policy by the US government (Crunch time, page 6, G2, September 17).

A photograph of a hanged tiger that accompanied an article headed 'There are many tiger widows here', page 6, G2, September 25, was wrongly credited to John Vidal. The picture was sent to the Guardian anonymously from Bangladesh.

A report headed Scandals worsen Britain's image in corruption league table, page 8, September 24, said that Britain's ranking in a league table compiled by an anti-corruption group fell this year and that Ireland performed better than Britain. In fact the UK and Ireland share 16th place on Transparency International's 2008 Corruption Perceptions Index.